The foundation’s curriculum integrates theoretical and practical education in basic privacy ideas, legal models, and developing issues. Its seven learning modules are as follows:
Key Privacy Concepts
Introduces learners to the fundamental roles and concepts of privacy and data protection to help professionals charged with integrating sophisticated information management practices to safeguard personal data, earn customer and stakeholder trust, and meet the business and operational needs of their organizations.
Fair Information Practices (FIPs)
Defines the FIPs, explores their origins, examines how they relate to one another to create a framework of data protection and helps learners interpret them to solve data protection problems in regular work activity.
The Data Life Cycle
Helps learners recognize each phase of the data life cycle, understand how each ties to relevant stakeholder needs and expectations, and identify gaps and propose improvements in data life cycle governance within their professional environments.
Models for Data Protection Legislation
Examines the models for data protection, key differences between the main models, and their comparative advantages and disadvantages.
Major Privacy and Data Protection Laws
Provides an overview of major privacy and data protection laws around the world to help learners better understand the evolving data protection landscape and its current state.
Case Studies
Offers real-world examples of companies accused of failing to comply with data protection provisions, as well as those that worked effectively with regulators to protect personal data.
Emerging Topics
Investigates key emerging topics related to data protection, define a consistent methodology for examining and reacting to an emerging issue, and explores how to identify relevant components of a new topic, assess it and apply privacy principles.
